Hey folks! Instead of missing my niche communities on Reddit, I decided to try my hand at creating a community here on Lemmy.

I’ve been knitting for around 20 years and have even published a few of my original patterns. The first pattern I ever published got picked up by Knitty, which was quite a big deal for me back then. I published a few patterns afterwards, but my designing muse has been dormant for a while. I have several original designs which I’ve never published and I’m hoping to put them up on Ravelry one day.

But in general, I just wanted to start a knitting community here in the hopes that others will join and share their work, ask for advice, and just geek out about knitting in general.

If you don’t have any current work to post, just introduce yourself. Lets start this community together!

  • BirdieEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Thanks for starting this community! I’m a pretty new knitter. And I’m super bad with timelines but I think I successfully started about a year ago. I say successfully started because I had tried to knit in the past and couldn’t get it to stick.

    Right now, I am working on a project that has two firsts for me: 2 at a time toe up socks. My first pair I knitted 1 at a time from the cuff down.

    I’m not completely sold on 2 at a time. It’s seems very fiddly! Perhaps I just need to get a better hang of it. I also need to figure out why the heck my toes have that weird poke out. Ah, learning curves!

    • kilgore@feddit.deOPMEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Welcome Birdi! Looking good so far! I’ve never done two at a time, but I also hate knitting socks lol. I guess the good thing is that you won’t have Second Sock Syndrome, which is a very real disorder :D

      • nyr@feddit.deEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        I sometimes do this (2 at a time) for sleeves to guarantee they have the same length and to minimize second sleeve syndrome. It kind of works but it makes trying on your wip hard to impossible, haha.

        • BirdieEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Oooo, that’s a great idea! Although I’d be doing a lot of hoping for the best when it comes to circumference!

      • BirdieEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Hopefully I won’t get 3rd and 4th sock syndrome! ;)

        I think next time I’ll do a cable pattern or something else to keep the process a little more interesting.

  • weirdsquid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Hey there, I’m also here. I think it was your post over on reddit that gave me the last push to join the fediverse. Thank you for your effort!

    PS: Have you also joined the other knitting communities?

    • kilgore@feddit.deOPMEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Hi! Glad I could inspire you to make the jump! As soon as I get around to it I’ll be deleting my reddit account.

      I did join the other knitting community, now I see there is even a third! I think its weird having many communities with the same name, so I imagine I might delete this one if its clear that one of the others is most used. For now I’m happy to co tribute and host this little corner of the Fediverse :)

  • HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    Hello fellow rexxitor! I’m also here from a lot of posts in r/knitting and r/crochet! Hello from kbin.social =)

      • HandsHurtLoL@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        I’ve been commenting in other magazines about having lost a sense of connection with a wide array of knitters and crocheters since the migration, and it dawned on me that the current communities for the fiber arts are all very active in the microblog part of the Fediverse and none of that content is coming to my attention because kbin’s home page only displays threads.

        Are you having a similar experience?